British Airways CIO Paul Coby can justifiably claim more than most of his peers to have had a tough time coping with the economic slowdown and cuts in IT budgets. In the first of a new series of interviews with some of the biggest characters in IT...
BA's CIO Paul Coby reaffirmed its commitment to the technology investment behind its 'customer-enabled BA' programme in an exclusive interview with silicon.com this week following the release of rather gloomy financial results.
In an exclusive interview with silicon.com late last year, BA's CIO Paul Coby said: "It is still extremely challenging times for airlines. 09.01.99: British Airways (BA) is to move into its new cargo handling centre at Heathrow from this month.
For this week's exclusive interview with BA CIO Paul Coby click here. Virgin Atlantic Airways has signed a five-year $7m deal with Sita for the provision and maintenance of an IP virtual private network (IP VPN).
The airline revealed plans for 3,000 to 5,000 job cuts back in January and while there are still no details on how this will impact the 1,900-strong IT department, Coby said there is a danger that any losses would impact the transformation programme.
BA's CIO Paul Coby said the real-time and mission-critical nature of internet-based systems meant it was getting more difficult to introduce new innovations because of the risk. Coby said: "We have put it quietly live on the website - a sort of...